Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Becky Sharp at the world premiere of that all-color film at Manhattan's Music Hall last week, hundreds of Wall Streeters took a flier in Technicolor stock on the New York Curb. If John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Pioneer Pictures, which control 15% of Technicolor, Inc., made an impressive splash with their $1,000,000 production, the black-&-white cinema industry might become as passe as the silent films, and Technicolor would stand as a very profitable colossus at the entrance to a new era in cinema production...
Next day employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. went back to work at NRA wages & hours...
Anna Schlorer grew up to marry & divorce a man named Smith, inherit & run Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. with her brother Charles. They signed up promptly with NRA, got Blue Eagle No. 13 in the Philadelphia district. But when the Supreme Court shattered NRA last month the in employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were informed that they were going back on the old wage & hour schedules-a 50-hr., 5½-day week with pay for the 85 factory girls down from $13 to $10 per week. The employes struck...
...picture business Walter Howey shows his most surprising side. The books on his desk bear such titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories, Inc." There, with his staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual acid bath, the Howey machine employs a photoelectric eye which scans the photograph. The impulses from the electric eye actuate...
...attended to this final detail. Old Mr. Zukor was given a berth as board chairman but key job of executive committee chairman went to Mr. Fortington. Picked for president was John Edward Otterson, 54, a tall, quiet, iron-haired onetime Naval officer who has long headed Electrical Research Products, Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's spectacular subsidiary. He it was who boosted A. T. & T. to its dominant position in the film industry's sound equipment field. His only hobbies are learned cinemas, showing, perhaps, the actual explosions in a gasoline engine or the development of a child from...